I
received a diplôme d’ingenieur from the Institut National Polytechnique
Houphouet-Boigny (formerly INSET) in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire(Ivory
Coast), in 1989 and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications (Telecom-Paritech), Paris, France, in
1994. My research interests include multimedia databases, spatio-temporal
databases and Recommender Systems.

From 1994 to 1996, I worked as a researcher at ENST, Paris; from 1996 to
1999, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada. From January 2000 to May 2006, I was an assistant professor of
computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and since June
2006 I am an Associate Professor in the same department. I have held
visiting professor positions at various institutions including National
Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan), ENST (Paris, France), Université
de Paris-IX Dauphine (Paris, France), INRIA (Roquencourt, France), CNAM
(Paris, France), Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong China) and the Université
de Bourgogne (Dijon, France). I am an associate editor the journals
Multimedia Tools and Application (MTAP), the International Journal of
Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM) and International
Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval. I have served on a number of
multimedia and database conference program committees including ACM
Multimedia (MM), ACM World Wide Web (WWW) and IEEE International Conference
on Data Engineering (ICDE).